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Top 7 Bugs (PVT)
PA TImes | 8/9/06 | Mullah Pissant

Posted on 08/09/2006 11:44:23 AM PDT by pissant

Ok. Enough news about Joe Lieberman, angry A-Rabs, and kittens around here. It's time to tell us what your favorite bug is and why.

Pissants top 7 are as follows:

7. Potato Bug. The little fellers are like miniature Armadillos and was one you could pick up as a kid without getting bitten or stung.

6. Earwig or Pincher Bug. Those pinchers on their tushes are quite intimidating. And for some reason like to hang out in Dahlias, so beware.

5. Butterfly. They always looked the best tacked to my bug collection corkboard. And were much easier to catch than grasshoppers.

4. Army Ants. These little communists are simply amazing. Putting your arm into an ant hill as a kid was a right of passage.

3. Dung Beetle. Besides being awesome at rolling a turd accross the ground, the name is a useful insult to be tossed around at cocktail parties.

2. Bird Eating Spider. There is nothing cooler than watching a giant spider attack a bird or small rodent.

1. Praying Mantis. This bug has inspired many nightmares in people and is responsible, with the onset of National Geographic photos and TV, for inspiring many loonies to claim they have been abducted by aliens. Any similarity to James Carville is strictly incidental.


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To: wallcrawlr

Easy there wall...


101 posted on 08/09/2006 12:53:57 PM PDT by EX52D (Life is a stage, and we are merely players...)
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To: pissant; EX52D
Do you mean Woodlice?

(Speaking of pissant's remark that they look like "miniature Armadillos," the scientific name of the woodlice's genus is Armadillidium.)

102 posted on 08/09/2006 1:00:19 PM PDT by Pyro7480 ("Love is the fusion of two souls in one in order to bring about mutual perfection." -S. Terese Andes)
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To: pissant

Barking spiders? In Washington State? I thought they were native to Australia.


103 posted on 08/09/2006 1:01:10 PM PDT by Pyro7480 ("Love is the fusion of two souls in one in order to bring about mutual perfection." -S. Terese Andes)
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To: Pyro7480
Do you mean Woodlice?

That's the one. Potato bug or pill bug.

SD

104 posted on 08/09/2006 1:03:08 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

Interestingly enough, they are considered to be crustaceans.


105 posted on 08/09/2006 1:05:27 PM PDT by Pyro7480 ("Love is the fusion of two souls in one in order to bring about mutual perfection." -S. Terese Andes)
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To: Pyro7480
That means you could fix 'em with garlic and butter, right?

SD

106 posted on 08/09/2006 1:07:59 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave
LOL! Probably not, due to their size, but maybe their larger cousins the giant isopod.


107 posted on 08/09/2006 1:12:08 PM PDT by Pyro7480 ("Love is the fusion of two souls in one in order to bring about mutual perfection." -S. Terese Andes)
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To: pissant
Don't know how many entomologists there are on FR, but I'm on. UCD 1968 entomology.

Later I was a grad TA at Iowa State. Worked in honeybees until I became hypersensitive.
108 posted on 08/09/2006 1:13:45 PM PDT by Battle Axe (Repent for the coming of the Lord is nigh!)
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To: EX52D

was that a question?

if so...ya know


109 posted on 08/09/2006 1:13:54 PM PDT by wallcrawlr
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To: Pyro7480
Probably not, due to their size,

Then bread 'em and deep fry 'em. Just like langostinos.

SD

110 posted on 08/09/2006 1:18:40 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: Pyro7480
Looks like a slipper tail lobster. Good eating and you don't have to wrestle them as much as spiny lobsters when you pull them out of their nooks and crannies. With all of their legs underneath them, they don't get much leverage.

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111 posted on 08/09/2006 1:27:35 PM PDT by Sax (You Done Tore Out My Heart And Stomped That Sucker Flat)
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To: pissant

Does my 1972 Super Beetle convertible...orange in color..count?

It was my first cool car..until it caught fire on the Interstate one day....


112 posted on 08/09/2006 1:33:35 PM PDT by Armedanddangerous (Master of Sinanju (emeritus))
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To: pissant
Bottom of list: fire ants, Africanized killer bees, weevils, cockroaches, scorpions, poisonous spiders (recluse, Black widow) chiggers, mesquitos and fleas. And anything that eats on my tomato and pepper plants.
113 posted on 08/09/2006 1:34:57 PM PDT by wolfcreek (You can spit in our tacos and you can rape our dogs but, you can't take away our freedom!)
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To: pissant
My neice (USMC active duty in Iraq) says that the "Camel Spiders" are to be feared!


114 posted on 08/09/2006 1:36:04 PM PDT by Species8472
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To: Pyro7480

Woodlice? Potato bug? Pill bug? Never heard of those. What part of the world are you guys from anyway? The picture you posted is a doodlebug! I think this little guy must be one of those linguistic marker words that give away what part of the country you grew up in (like the mosquito hawk/dragonfly/helicopter bug is).


115 posted on 08/09/2006 1:52:37 PM PDT by leilani
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To: SoothingDave

Ditto on your nomination for all time best bug ever (lightening bug). No contest. The only bug on the planet that even an unrepentant extremist anti-bug hate-monger such as myself could ever have any respect for.


116 posted on 08/09/2006 2:11:04 PM PDT by leilani
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To: leilani

Well, the name I grew up with was "pill bug." But I was going with the formal Wikipedia name (I guess it's British usage).


117 posted on 08/09/2006 3:33:17 PM PDT by Pyro7480 ("Love is the fusion of two souls in one in order to bring about mutual perfection." -S. Terese Andes)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Child of the earth. We used to see these all the time near the ditches in NW Albuquerque.

118 posted on 08/09/2006 3:38:44 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (August 22)
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To: thesandbox83

Free shipping!? Wow! You're good!


119 posted on 08/09/2006 3:41:34 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (August 22)
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To: Battle Axe

UCD 1980 Mech Engr


120 posted on 08/09/2006 3:47:54 PM PDT by rahbert
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